FCPX Creative Summit – Session Descriptions

Saturday, October 28th

Saturday, October 28th | 9:00 – 10:15amMusic and Final Cut Pro X

Music is a fundamental aspect of visual storytelling as it drives the tone, mood and pacing of your film or video. Using Final Cut Pro X and GarageBand, Steve will guide you through the process of choosing, editing, arranging and mixing music so that it enhances your story without detracting from it.

Editing a large narrative film can seem overwhelming both, technically and creatively. In this seminar we will focus on the unique tools provided by Final Cut Pro and how to apply them to narrative editing. We will also discuss a variety of creative editing techniques and how to get the most out of the tools of Final Cut Pro.

Ideal for anyone who wants to create narrative films large and small with Final Cut Pro

Are you a Final Cut Pro X editor looking to add custom motion graphics to your projects? If so, then this is the session for you. We will start with easy ways to quickly add opening title sequences to projects by publishing them to FCP X from Motion. Then we will explore customizing built-in effects by modifying rigs and adding published parameters. From there, you will learn how easy it can be to create your own titles, transitions, and effects from scratch using Motion’s powerful rigging and publishing features.

What concrete lessons or skills will attendees take away from this session?

Keystrokes and clicks matter. Apple has streamlined common post processes and challenged common organizational ideas. Learn about the little things that make a big difference in how you spend your creative time. Ideal for anyone who wants to understand how Final Cut Pro gives editors more time to focus on the creative and assistants fighting the battle of organization, better tools to accomplish tedious and complex tasks.

AND Time Allowing, exploration of the FINAL CUT LIBRARY OPENER and a new slant on shared workflow strategies.

What concrete lessons or skills will attendees take away from this session?

Understanding the transition between other NLEs and FCPX and how to accomplish common editing and assisting tasks faster and more efficiently. And time allowing, Shared workflow strategies using Final Cut Library Opener.

Creating compelling motion graphics for your Final Cut Pro X projects doesn’t have to be difficult, nor does it require hiring a graphics designer. In this session, Steve will show you how to build a repository of static and motion design elements that are readily available whenever you need to cook up some tasty visuals.

Learn how Emmy Nominated documentary Assistant Editor Patrick Southern employed Final Cut X’s Multicam tools to synchronize footage that had no matching timecode, no slates, no unified naming conventions, and that was entirely in French and Azeri.

What concrete lessons or skills will attendees take away from this session?

Motion’s powerful particle system and its realtime playback engine are a perfect combination for creating particle-based effects for your video projects. In this session you’ll learn how to add natural phenomena like smoke, fog, rain, sparks and fire to shots; you’ll explore animating particles with behaviors, making particles out of images and image sequences; building particle systems in 2D and 3D space, and using 3D objects as particle sources.

What concrete lessons or skills will attendees take away from this session?

SUNDAY

Sunday, October 29th | 9:00 – 11:30amGetting Started in 360 Video Production

With the support of huge platform players like Google and Facebook, 360 Video is coming of age. In this info-packed session, you’ll hear from Steve & Mark as they walk you through the concepts, gear and post production workflows for creating and delivering 360 content.

We’ll walk you through everything you need to know about how to effectively manage color in FCPX for projects large and small. We’ll dive into how to grade, look management, and all aspects of making the most of the color tool in FCPX. If you’ve wanted to learn how to approach finishing a project entirely in FCPX, this is the session for you.

What concrete lessons or skills will attendees take away from this session?

How to approach grading a shot in FCPX

how to manage looks in FCPX

How to use masks and power windows in FCPX

How to read scopes in FCPX

Best practices for round tripping with FCPX and high end grading approaches

Emmy nominated documentary Editor and Assistant Editor Patrick Southern shares workflow tips and tricks for making the most of FCPX in your edit. Learn how to utilize transcripts in you edit. Discover industry-tested methods for logging and organizing your footage. Find out the secrets behind making a clean turnover to color and sound. You might even learn a few nuggets on documentary research & production.

What concrete lessons or skills will attendees take away from this session?

How do you edit a feature film on set using FCPX on a laptop with media shot at 6k? How can you maximize the media resolution for post? Come to this seminar and learn how to edit your 4k+ media without choking your hardware or breaking the bank. Questions are encouraged during this session! Ideal for mobile FCPX users who wants to get the most out of 4k+ workflows.

What concrete lessons or skills will attendees take away from this session?

Calculate a resolution buffer for post stabilization and reframing for any aspect ratio.

Create proxy media to lower data overhead and work faster in FCPX.

Setup FCPX to work with Overscan media.

Understand how offline settings in FCPX will translate down the workflow line when conforming to Camera original media.

Especially as you grow a facility, assets tend to pile up over time. The more projects you do, the bigger this problem becomes. One of the great things about FCPX, though, is its media management capabilities. When used correctly, these can be extermely powerful and can allow you to turn FCPX into its own MAM. And if you find yourself outgrowing that, we’ll talk you through some best practices for 3rd party MAM solutions.

What concrete lessons or skills will attendees take away from this session?

How to build and manage a growing asset library in FCPX

How to leverage hard links for archiving with FCPX

Overview of 3rd party asset management tools to help you build a facility